AMD Kaveri A10-7850K Overclocking Analysis

OpenCL Performance

Basemark OpenCL

Basemark CL by Rightware is a comprehensive benchmark tool designed to measure the performance of OpenCL 1.1 implementations on various devices ranging from desktops to embedded systems. Basemark CL uses OpenGL ES 2.0 or OpenGL 2.1 for rendering, depending on the platform. Download here.

Basemark CL showed the largest gains of all the benchmarks because compute scales well with frequency increases. Anyone using the A10-7850K for compute applications will benefit hugely from overclocking, though you’ll need to ensure the overclock is rock-solid stable if you’re using it for work-based applications.

Compubench CL 1.1.3 – GPU

CompuBench is a unified performance benchmarking tool that gives realistic feedback on the performance of various compute API implementations used for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems. Based on CLBenchmark, the first professional OpenCL benchmark on the market, it compares CPUs, GPUs and accelerators of desktop and mobile devices by their compute performance characteristics. Download here.

Compubench is another compute based application that shows excellent scaling due to AMD’s strong performance in OpenCL.

Luxmark

LuxMark is a OpenCL benchmark tool. The idea for the program was conceived in 2009 by Jean-Francois ‘Jromang’ Romang. The idea was quite simple, wrap SLG inside an easy to use graphical user interface and use it as a benchmark for OpenCL. Download here.

Luxmark showed very good scaling though when you add the CPU into the mix the scaling seems to be less impressive.